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What fonts are you currently using on your system? Which do you think is best for the terminal or for your desktop environment?

(updates) Ok I think I'm a fan of Ubuntu nerd fonts right now

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Pusab (I'm a gd player)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Whatever the default font is

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

VictorMono, has a cool cursive, mono spaced font.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

For desktop, I've liked Lato, Source Sans Pro, and Inter to name three.

For terminal, I used Iosevka's customizer to create a gorgeous Fira Mono-like variant that I call Iosevka Firesque:

[buildPlans.IosevkaFiresque]
family = "Iosevka Firesque"
spacing = "term"
serifs = "sans"
noCvSs = true
exportGlyphNames = false

  [buildPlans.IosevkaFiresque.variants]
  inherits = "ss05"

    [buildPlans.IosevkaFiresque.variants.design]
    capital-g = "toothless-corner-serifless-hooked"
    capital-q = "crossing-baseline"
    g = "single-storey-serifed"
    long-s = "bent-hook-tailed"
    cyrl-a = "single-storey-earless-corner-serifed"
    cyrl-ve = "standard-interrupted-serifless"
    cyrl-capital-ze = "unilateral-serifed"
    cyrl-ze = "unilateral-serifed"
    cyrl-capital-en = "top-left-bottom-right-serifed"
    cyrl-en = "top-left-bottom-right-serifed"
    cyrl-capital-er = "open-serifless"
    cyrl-er = "earless-corner-serifless"
    cyrl-capital-u = "cursive-flat-hook-serifless"
    cyrl-u = "curly-motion-serifed"
    cyrl-capital-e = "unilateral-bottom-serifed"
    cyrl-e = "unilateral-bottom-serifed"
    brace = "straight"
    ampersand = "upper-open"
    at = "threefold"
    cent = "open"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I've been using Fantasque sans mono for a bunch of years now.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Fira Sans / FiraGO by Mozilla, and the new SUSE font by SUSE.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Fira Code and Caskaydia Cove Nerd Font for monospace. For other uses, I'm usually good with whatever the system ships with.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I find comic sans mono actually looks surprisingly nice for coding and terminal.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Inter for desktop and the nerd-font variant of JetBrainMono for Terminal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

+1 for Inter. Kind of reminds me of San Francisco :)

🟨 preview: Inter

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Hack nerd font is my go to for terminal use.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Same. I've compiled a custom variant of Iosevka for terminal and code, because I want to have some chars in a certain way, especially the 0 and the & for even better readability. I used to have Monoid for code and terminal, but it the pixel perfect size for 12pt was getting too small for me and my eyes are not getting any better. Iosevka looks better even after some hinting by the OS.

On the rest of the desktop UI I use B612, because it is very ledgible, I recently switch over from the hyperledible Atkinson font. Before that I had Gidole on the desktop. Very pleasing, but not that readable at same font size.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

I've been enjoying Fira Sans and Fira Mono for far too long: https://mozilla.github.io/Fira/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Since basically forever I use DejaVu Sans for UI elements and DejaVu Mono for the terminal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

me too, I loved Verdana before I discovered FOSS and DejaVu Sans is basically FOSS Verdana

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Please don't hate me but for desktop I use Segoe UI. After years of using it everything else looks just kinda off and cheap to me. Similar to when folder icons are not yellow

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ubuntu font. Idk why but I like it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I agree! Nice memories of hitting backspace in a Linux Mint terminal and hearing that weird-ass BWOUP sound.

I recommend Ubuntu Mono for Termux users. Look at this black-background beauty -- way better than the angly flat default

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Lato, League Spartan, League Gothic are my three most used fonts by a wide margin. Lato and its variety of weights for most things, League when I am doing design work and need a cleaner title or header.

Lately ive been weirdly taken with TT2020 Style G, which is an odd name for a no-name font that replicates an old imperfect typewriter. For whatever reason, switching my writing software to that (Manuscript) suddenly fired up my writing flow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

For sans-serif, I use Mona Sans. For monospace, I use Monaspace. I think it's a good-looking combination.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I use M+ Fonts for most of my stuff.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I don't have a favorite system font, am I meant to? I did try to play with fonts at one point but the process of finding fonts and then figuring out how to install them was a bit much.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Protomolecule for that scifi feel

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Protomolecule everywhere? 0.o

Scifi fonts remind me of old Rainmeter configurations. Wonder if Rainmeter ricing is still around

🟨 preview: Protomolecule

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Except the terminal and a few other places.
While it's very good looking, it's not extremely practical with no difference (almost) between lower case and upper case letters.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

As a huge expanse fan, I'm glad someone brought this to life! (Shout-out for the space the nation podcast if you like nerds breaking down the episodes and need a good back catalog for the dark winter days)

https://github.com/ThinkDualBrain/Protomolecule

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've been using Source Code Pro for a while now. Might not be the best, but it does the job for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

me too, i use it for terminal as well

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For terminal/editor I went through CodingFont and ended up on Noto Sans Mono. Before that I used Source Code Pro for years. Both patched for nerd fonts, obviously.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I wish to put in a plug for Noto Sans Semicondensed for spreadsheets, although not generally for system-wide use.

I recommend it for my Tonto2 List Maker script, which uses a spreadsheet layout. Noto Sans Semicondensed has "tabular figures," which means you can use it in tables to align digits and decimals with simple spaces and still have the look of a proportionally spaced font for text.

Noto Sans Semicondensed is available from Google, of course, but Linux Users will be more likely to install the fonts-noto-core package.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I don’t have a reason to move away from the Fedora defaults except for monospaced fonts.

Terminal wise, terminus is my default. It’s so clean, and it looks good without anti-aliasing.

Roboto Mono is my current preference for monospaced fonts.

Adobe Source Code Pro and JetBrains Mono are good alternatives as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Ubuntu Mono for terminal, code, and data, Open Sans for the rest

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